One profits, the rest... don't.
AI Scrapers to the left,
Extraction to the right
Here I am...
Stuck in the middle with you... :)
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I think I accidentally deleted the offending IP from the database though, because I didn't possibly think anyone could be hitting it other than me yet. Whoops.
https://getoffmyfuckinglawn.com
Source code here -> https://github.com/boydj/getoffmyfuckinglawn.com
For the longest time the URL was just a picture of Clint Eastwood from the Gran Torino movie.
#AI #AIScrapers #Tarpit #RobotsTxt #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Golang #GetOffMyLawn
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The web’s newest weapon against #AIscrapers is a #font https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/new-font-turns-ordinary-webpages-into-nonsense-for-ai-scrapers/
#writing #amwriting #publishing #AI
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Let me guess: They are currently under a massive attack by #AIScrapers which are attempting to download all of their ebooks for the 1000th time this month, in the hopes of finding some new scraps of data that they haven't fed into their models?
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The #AIBubble cannot collapse soon enough.
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Right now, the site seems to work.
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“If we don’t have the infrastructure to do proper payments for agents, then agents aren’t buying and selling, and if agents aren’t buying and selling, then they aren’t generating economic activity,” Yang said.'
As usual, the Tech Industry sees the \"Horrible Future Dystopia\" as their next \"Business Plan\".
#AIBubble #AIScrapers #TormentNexus
https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/
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193 requests per minute is crazy for a tiny site like mine.
They must know that this is only going to waste their time and money, right?
#AI #aislop #aiscrapers #Meta #GPTBot #OpenAI #Apple #AIBubble
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Any other (dynamic) blocklist that could be added?
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but… how much money did Cloudflare make from #aiscrapers gobbling up the billions of cached web pages they got?
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The good news is a human emailed me and asked me for my experience one year in and that was nice (which is also how I found out about the HN post). I'll share my response below until I get around to fleshing out a blog post from it:
I should absolutely do a write-up a year in. I'll give you the highlights:
- I lost my original PineNote and after a few months of trying to get it back, I ended up getting a replacement, which should say something all in itself.
- I wish the device was a little bit smaller and lighter, but I have gotten used to it.
- I use it as a single function device at a time, mostly writing or reading, very occasional computing.
- However, I on a month-long trip and I only brought along my work laptop and the PineNote instead of bringing a personal laptop. I can do all the personal computing that I need on the PineNote and my phone. See my setup here: https://shom.dev/posts/20250406_a-pinenote-only-5-day-weekend/
- I wish Pine64 would update their images with the kernel optimization created by the community member hrdl, they do link to it from their official docs.
- There is also an interesting project called QuillOS, which provides a nice interface to the whole system, but it's not ready for primetime on PineNote.
#PineNote #HackerNews #AIScrapers #AIBots
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👉 https://developer.upsun.com/posts/insights/the-not-so-hidden-cost-of-ai-scrapers
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> PSA: #Tencent is aggressively scraping the Internet to build yet another AI slop chatbot, DDoSing many websites in the process.
>
> We've found that, as of last week, their scraping bots can now solve Cloudflare challenges and behave like real users while ignoring robots.txt. In the last 24 hours alone, our website received more than 3 million successful requests from Tencent bot IP addresses, plus another 1 million that were blocked by Cloudflare challenges.
>
> These recurring DDoS attacks from Tencent have been going on for over a year, and we have been constantly adjusting our firewall rules to filter them while trying not to impact Tencent's real users. Because that is no longer possible, we're now fully blocking Tencent IP addresses, starting with ASN 132203. We recommend other sysadmins do the same.
https://x.com/rpcs3/status/2061946000734888017
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\n\nOccasionally there can be joy\n\nhttps://mmn.ca/~/English/Sunday%20Somewhat%20Funday/
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Also known as estevez.
#GlitchySocial owner and administrator
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In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones
Matthew Linares
20 February 2026
Excerpt: \"Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]
\" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines.\"
Read more:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbots-scraper-bots-chatgpt-website-offline-change-internet/
#AISucks #AI #DataMining #Internet #Websites #TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech #TechBros
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